Sentence examples for union priorities from inspiring English sources

The thorniest issue has been job security, with pay, retirement benefits and medical care also union priorities.

His merits to Mr Miliband lie as much in what he is not as what he is: above all, he was not at Gordon Brown's right hand when the wrong decisions were taken, and he has long since shed his old trade union priorities.

Recent initiatives by Unite in the UK and Unifor in Canada to set up community branches not only require the devotion of far more resources, but the resetting of union priorities, so that community issues actually feature centrally in collective bargaining strategies.

Labor unions' support for Lamb is as much a function of Saccone's status as an opponent of union priorities as it is of the Democratic candidate's strengths.

Politico has taken a look at Obama's State of the Union priorities over time, measured by how many words he has devoted to each issue from year to year.

Ms. Weingarten said that wage parity would be a union priority during contract talks.

Worker safety instantly became a top union priority, prompting a dramatic rise in membership nationwide.

Put aside for now worries about the stalled "card-check" bill a union priority that would make it far easier for workers to organize and ink union contracts.

Labor allies, however, contended that the opposition was driven by her support of the Employee Free Choice Act -- a union priority that Republicans in the Senate staunchly oppose.

Looking forward, Stern expressed confidence that Congress, with Solis and President Obama steering the ship, would move forward on EFCA, a union priority that is bitterly opposed by the business community.

A few hundred billion dollars of stimulus funding put 450,000 teachers back to work, the U.S. Education Department calculates, supporting a union priority of growing its ranks and keeping class sizes small; on the other hand, the Race to the Top competition angered unions by encouraging the growth of charter schools and evaluations based on test scores.